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#6 Future Cities

Amsterdam Museum Journal
Issue #6 - Summer 2026

Guest editors René Boer, Francis Gene-Rowe

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A Polylogue on Collapse
Published in Issue #6 - Summer 2026
Author(s) Selçuk Balamir, René Boer, Angela YT Chan, Francis Gene-Rowe
Discipline
Geopolitics
Environmental Science
Type
Polylogue
Themes
Future
collapse
colonialism
urbanism
The Polyphonic Object Analyses of New Babylon
Published in Issue #6 - Summer 2026
Author(s) dr. Tom van der Molen, Amy Brookes, María Mazzanti
Discipline
Art History
Architecture
Type
Polyphonic Object
Themes
Future
architecture
urbanism
Amsterdam
The Needle and the Map: (Re)thinking Quito through Embroidery with Indigenous Youth
Published in Issue #6 - Summer 2026
Author(s) Léa Lamotte, Carolina Enriquez, Vanesa Guerrero, Yolanda Doicela, Etsa (Carol Cortez Osorio)
Discipline
Human Geography
Cultural Mediation
Sociology
Type
Visual Essay
Themes
Future
participatory-creative method
co-creation
children
Reimagining the Future City: Utopian Ambivalence and Spatial Experiments in 新石頭記 ‘The New Story of the Stone’
Published in Issue #6 - Summer 2026
Author(s) Xia Zijian (夏子健)
Discipline
Sinology
Type
Long Essay
Themes
Future
science fiction
spatial form
utopia
Auto Ex-Machina. Fodder for Post-car Imaginaries
Published in Issue #6 - Summer 2026
Author(s) Carmen Armenteros Puchades, Lucia Concetta Vincelli
Discipline
Architecture
Landscape
Art
Type
Short Essay
Themes
Future
more-than-human
gentrification
Futures in Flux: Imagining Cities Through Water in Hong Kong Science Fiction
Published in Issue #6 - Summer 2026
Author(s) Ming-yan Carissa Ma
Discipline
Literary Studies
Cultural Analysis
Science Fiction Studies
Type
Short Essay
Themes
Future
hydrofeminism
science fiction
Hopes, Dreams and Wishes (2021): Understanding the Journey to the Future in Mượn Thị Văn and Victo Ngai’s Award-Winning Picturebook
Published in Issue #6 - Summer 2026
Author(s) Rosanne van Ballegooijen
Discipline
post-colonialism
utopianism
Literary Studies
Type
Short Essay
Themes
Future
utopia
postcolonialism
children
Cities of Privilege: Speculative Architecture, Corporate Sovereignty, and the Martian Frontier
Published in Issue #6 - Summer 2026
Author(s) Jagoda Tyczyńska
Discipline
Science Fiction Studies
American Studies
Type
Long Essay
Themes
Future
science fiction
spatial form
Vanishing Points: Spatial Empathy and Surveillance in Sites of Control and Erasure
Published in Issue #6 - Summer 2026
Author(s) K. Yoland
Discipline
Spatial Theory
Geopolitics
Type
Long Essay
Themes
Future
borders
surveillance
incarceration
Imagining beyond Visions: Opening up the Omgevingsvisie Amsterdam 2050 for Transformative Futures
Published in Issue #6 - Summer 2026
Author(s) Job Oberman, Rianne Janssen
Discipline
urban planning
Type
Short Essay
Themes
Future
urbanism
Amsterdam
visions
Producing Inclusive Futures: Pedagogy, Governance, and the Pragmatist Reform of Higher Education
Published in Issue #6 - Summer 2026
Author(s) Martin van Pul, Anya Naumova
Discipline
Future Studies
Political Epistemology
Critical Pedagogy
Type
Short Essay
Themes
Future
justice
pragmatism
reform